Food and Guns Part 1
Senegambian hunter and wife circa 1800 Courtesy of The New York Public Library
The national debate over gun control continue with the possibilities of bipartisan agreement in the US Senate. The Atlantic slave trade resulted in the increase availability of guns in West and Central Africa as African entrepreneurs traded human beings for guns among other luxury items. Game caught without a dependence on guns represented only a small part of the commoner’s diet in pre-17th century West and Central Africa. Increasingly hunting animals with guns increased after the start of the Atlantic slave trade.
